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TREE NEWS reports: HypeStrat bought 1.8 million HYPE tokens worth $150.48 million and added $256.6 million in cash, bringing its total cash recovered within one week to about $407 million. PURR responded well to the data, with mNAV at 1.26x.

TREE NEWS update: Police in Gangwon, South Korea, booked 26 people on suspicion of illegal gambling and referred 18 of them to prosecutors, tracing their wallets through public blockchain records because the platform holds no list of Korean users. The 26 users staked crypto worth about 17.6 billion won on Polymarket.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin Core developer Niklas Gögge warned that AI-driven vulnerability scanning is reshaping Bitcoin’s security landscape, as large language models sharply cut the cost of finding flaws — attackers may uncover catastrophic bugs for just a few hundred dollars in compute. More than 1,000 reports have been generated for Bitcoin Core by Project Loupe, Bitcoin Red Team and individual contributors, but no high-risk or critical vulnerabilities have been found so far. Gögge said relying on stronger models to outpace attackers is not sustainable, urging automated, fuzz and property-based testing instead.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto.com’s Nadex exchange registered by written notice to list single-stock futures in the US, an effective-on-filing step that required no SEC approval and names no specific product in the SEC release. Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has said the single-stock perpetuals the company wants next would need both SEC and CFTC sign-off.

TREE NEWS update: DeFi Development Corp’s stock DFDV rose more than 10% on the day to $5, as the company unveiled a new Solana-backed preferred stock called CHAD. CEO Joseph Onorati said the team had closely studied how Strategy and Strive developed STRC and SATA, and that CHAD draws on both experiences.

TREE NEWS reports: The attacker behind the September 6 Liquid Network exploit has returned 3,400 bitcoin, about 85% of the assets moved, but still holds 598.50 BTC worth more than $45 million. Blockstream, which maintains the network, has refused to pay a ransom and is demanding the remaining bitcoin back. L-BTC redemption for bitcoin remains offline, with Sideswap saying it cannot process redemptions, as circulating L-BTC of 4,234.76 exceeds the 3,632.23 BTC in reserves.

TREE NEWS reports: Glencore’s suspended iron ore business head Peter Hill urged troubled trading firm Radiant World not to disclose any information in emails. Hill has been suspended from his role at the mining and commodities giant. No further details on the nature of the information or the circumstances of the instruction were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: CleanSpark Inc. is seeking to raise about $2.23 billion in its first junk bond sale to fund AI infrastructure tied to Meta Platforms Inc. The five-year notes are being discussed at an initial yield of roughly 8.5%, about 2 percentage points above the average yield on BB-rated corporate debt tracked by Bloomberg, as investors demand a higher risk premium for data center financing. Orders at Thursday’s launch were roughly equal to the deal size, and it marks the first Meta data center-linked junk bond issue.

TREE NEWS update: The Clarity Act failed in the Senate on Tuesday, with a 49-50 vote falling short of the 60 needed to begin debate; no Democrats voted to proceed. The collapse came after a year of negotiations and 126 changes aimed at winning Democratic support for the industry’s largest regulatory push. Crypto stocks including Coinbase reacted immediately.

TREE NEWS update: Polymarket has hired the former CEO of Zora as it pushes to rebuild its onchain product, with the prediction market’s vice president of DeFi engineering saying its existing central limit order book cannot be saved long term and is being rebuilt in Rust. The hire and the rebuild point to a broader shift toward onchain infrastructure at the platform.

TREE NEWS update: The CFTC issued a no-action letter allowing certain software providers to connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers. The relief covers crypto apps whose software routes users to CFTC-regulated venues, removing a registration hurdle that had deterred such offerings. The agency did not specify which providers qualify.

TREE NEWS update: The US Treasury sanctioned Iranian crypto exchange BitBank over alleged bitcoin transfers to the IRGC. Treasury said the previously sanctioned Hormuz Safe platform used BitBank to transfer payments collected since June. The action targets a channel the US says moved funds to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

TREE NEWS update: Solana has conducted the first on-chain governance vote in its history in which any SOL holder, not just validators, could vote on the network’s constitution, inflation and fees. Nick Almond, Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation, discussed the vote. The outcome and vote totals were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has expanded regulatory relief for passive trading software providers, a move that could let crypto wallets and other apps offer access to regulated derivatives and prediction markets without registering as introducing brokers. The agency’s action eases registration requirements for software that routes orders but does not handle customer funds or exercise discretion.

TREE NEWS update: X has added a US ‘Trade’ button to cashtags that lets users complete transactions directly at partner brokerages Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini. Kraken said any crypto cashtag can route to it, while Gemini named five tokens available through the feature.

TREE NEWS update: World has rolled out a self-custodial money app that combines Bridge-linked accounts with Morpho lending, though key features remain country-limited. Availability, eligibility and third-party providers vary by jurisdiction, the company said. The launch ties World’s wallet to Bridge’s account infrastructure and Morpho’s on-chain credit markets.

TREE NEWS reports: The final Clarity Act text removed all references to the federal unlicensed money transmitting statute, leaving developers with civil protection but no criminal shield, Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone said on Unchained. Carbone said he cannot say how much further the industry should be willing to give, signaling the sector may be done conceding on the bill.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said artificial intelligence will not doom crypto security, arguing it could help developers mathematically verify entire software systems. In his view, the same technology powering new attacks can be turned into a tool for defense.

TREE NEWS update: Apple has introduced an Impersonation Risk Detection feature in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, aimed at guarding against social-engineering scams in progress. The anti-fraud tool is designed to flag impersonation attempts as they happen on iPhone and iPad devices.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan analysts said bitcoin could receive more support than gold if investors reduce their ETF hedges. The bank’s analysts made the assessment in a note on the two assets’ exchange-traded fund flows and positioning.